Geodata journalism. Mapping stories on water issues in the Nile Basin.
Geodata journalism. Mapping stories on water issues in the Nile Basin.
Effective Microorganisms (EM) technology is a Japanese innovation being used in Sudan to improve soil quality, crop growth, and crop yields.
Delphin Kaze, 23, a young man from Gitega, Burundi’s second largest city, located in the Nile basin, has found an alternative to preserve the tree. He makes ecological charcoal from maize stalks.
Chimpanzees are facing the threat of extinction due to an increase in deaths and other threats including habitat destruction (natural forests) depletion of reserves, food shortages as well as disease.
Several farmers in Kenya are crying foul of wild animals destroying their food and crops. Communities around the Tsavo park have turned to tree planting as an innovation to end human-wildlife conflicts
So far Kenya has lost 80 per cent in revenues from tourism and 90 per cent from international arrivals since March this year
Musambwa Island, the World’s Largest Breeding Colony for Grey-headed Gulls Devastated by Floods amid Coronavirus Pandemic.
Over the last 20 years, Lake Manyara has shrunk by over 90%.
Climate change is forcing wild animals to migrate to find safer places to live.
Such migration is bringing these wild animals closer to people’s settlements and is encourage poaching.
Read about the civil war, climate change and the effects of COVID-19 that is threatening South Sudan
French oil multinational Total, its partner investors, and the Ugandan and Tanzanian governments will soon finalize their decision on the Lake Albert Development Project, Uganda’s first oil development
The effects of potential oil spills and infrastructure development would cause irreversible damage in the ecologically sensitive Albertine Region, which contributes 30% of Uganda’s fish stocks
Lake Nakivale in Isingiro District, Uganda is under threat due to massive pollution.
Now, refugees in Nakivale refugee camp in Isingiro district have taken the lead role in the conservation and protection of the lake, the biggest water source to the camp
A wildlife reserve is recovering from the heavy poaching of the 1970s and 80s. A community’s efforts to reduce poaching by beekeeping. Reports show a modest increase in the number of the top nine dominant animal species in the reserve: baboons, bushpigs, bushbucks, black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, Duikers, Kobs, the orbi and warthogs.
The Rothschild Giraffe, only found in Kenya and Uganda, is alarmingly decreasing in population and faces risk of extinction.
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